The Anatomy & Physiology of the Blow-fly (Musca vomitoria Linn.): A Monograph

Description:

First edition.

Freeman 2332.

Condition

Roy. 8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, wear to head of spine/top of front joint; inner hinges cracked but firm. From the library of K.G.V. Smith (1929-2017), leading British dipterist at the Natural History Museum, London, and editor of the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, with his name in ink to endpaper; original ownership label of W.W. Wagstaffe. The latter's signature, dated Dec. 1869, also to titlepage. Review of Vol. I of the later (1890) edition of the current work, clipped from 'The British Medical Journal', loosely inserted.